Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Social Media Ready Web Design - A social visit made easy

Social Media marketing has proved itself as an effective marketing tool, particularly for small businesses with very niche and hard to reach markets. In some cases small businesses have marketed themselves so effectively that they beat their large competitors with better corporate funding and resources. 

However, social media is also making people smarter. Not only the businesses who are out there to exploit social media, but also the consumers who are now well aware of the choices they have. Businesses need to be smarter about how they promote themselves on social media. 

Planning is also an important part of any marketing plan and ignoring a web design in this marketing could lead to an unsuccessful waste of resources. If you are planning your web design now, then it would be better that you think about how you are going to integrate social media into your website. However, if you already have a website then you should re-check your web design to make sure that it is social media ready. 

What is a Social Media ready web design? 

Web design with room for adding social website buttons; a web design that publishes RSS feed and provides links on the web pages for easy sharing, content aggregation, and content submission. Your web design should be interactive and users should be able to follow links to your social profiles on social networks. 

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